Wolfgang Fritz wrote: > I am running vdr 1.4.1. Some days ago I found it running in the morning. > It hadn't shut down after a recording. Trying a manual shutdown gave the > error message: > > "Recording in -244 minutes. Really shutdown?" (not this message exactly, > but the German version). Pressing "OK" did not work, I had to log in to > a console and to do a "shutdown -h". > > Reason: /video was full, no recordings could be deleted, so VDR tried > in vain again and again to start the programmed recording. > > Shouldn't VDR stop its well meant but useless efforts at the latest if > the event to record is over? Didn't you get any "Not enough disk space to start recording!" messages? VDR shouldn't even start a recording if there is less than 300MB of free disk space. Klaus